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26 November, 2010 - 23:53 — nobody (not verified)

Hi,

I tried feeding Qtractor with some VSTs bundled with my firewire audio interface and miserably failed: no VST plug-ins are listed at all.

What I did was:

  1. Add /usr/local/lib/vst to search path for VST in the Options dialog.
  2. Click OK.
  3. Restart Qtractor just in case.

The very same directory is read by Ardour and I can add plug-ins to Ardour's tracks and busses. What am I missing apart from god's blessing? :)

P.S. Running revision 1729 compiled without forced path to VST headers (thus using vestige) here.

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27 November, 2010 - 11:18 — rncbc
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When referring to VST plugins, Qtractor do search for Linux native VST plugins that have been compiled and built from source on Linux with either the official Steinberg VST-SDK headers or the VeSTige header. These plugins come in the form of ELF shared object files (.so).

You're probably trying to look after Windows VSTs (.dll) which are only made available by proxy ie. DSSI-VST through WINE. That means that all regular Windows VST plugins will appear as DSSI plugins, never as VST.

One more thing you might need to know, is that the path for the dssi-vst scanner to search for those .dll's is exclusively given by the VST_PATH environment variable. Again, Linux native VSTs are scanned under default search path /usr/local/lib/vst:/usr/lib/vst (32bit) or /usr/local/lib64/vst:/usr/lib64/vst (64bit) or whatever you set in View/Options.../Plugins configuration.

HTH

4 December, 2010 - 09:13 — prokoudine (not verified)

Ah, that explains it. Thanks :)

19 February, 2011 - 01:17 — nobody (not verified)

I dont understand please helpme cant find vst plugins

19 February, 2011 - 11:38 — rncbc
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what exactly you don't understand?

19 February, 2011 - 19:19 — nobody (not verified)

I have kubuntu 10.10 (x86) the path /usr/local/lib/vst:/usr/lib/vst (32bit) don't exist on my system i can't find any vsti folder on usr/local/

19 February, 2011 - 22:21 — rncbc
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i don't know of any distro that includes native linux VSTs on their package repositories. in fact and most often you must/should build those from source, which also include obtaining yourself the vst-sdk from steinberg.

that kind of explains you not finding none on those directories, which are just informal suggestions.

cheers

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